This is a great comment - although I think it’s important to parse this with what the poppy means for many. Ultimately the sale of poppies in the United Kingdom serves to help fund the Royal British Legion, who do good work for veterans and for many, including myself, it galls me to see it hijacked by nationalist…

You’d think Papa would have learned by now to stop it with the burner accounts

I genuinely think we do and appreciate the thoughtful engagement on the topic. I also agree that both sides of what went on in NI rests on the shoulders of both “sides”, I suppose the hard part for us to reckon with is who should shoulder more, rather than just trying to move on. I recognize that even I am guilty of…

Your opening statement encapsulated my feelings on better than I could have even expressed.

This is a very fair point and I certainly agree that the British state has much to answer for when it comes to it’s actions in Ireland, as to be honest the two greatest recruitment tools for the IRA were Bloody Sunday and the rhetoric of Ian Paisley, which the government did nothing to downplay.

Personally speaking it bears dangerously close to a false equivalency. I take your point however.

Thanks kindly! 

And even more so if one looks UK wide, with political affiliations in the SPL (Old firm) and Irish league

Most of the younger generation will interchange the name without really batting an eyelid. Frankly the Derry/Londonderry question really sums up Ireland in general, the political maturity simply doesn’t exist to move on. If there’s a simple issue, we politicise it ad nauseum. The poppy is simply another example. A…

Dame Jo sounds like a lot of fun.

Yup. This is a purely tactical move whereby he can set himself up for a run at the presidency, and maintains a “winning” record. He also leaves of his own accord without upsetting the republican applecart too much. Villainous gremlin he may be, but he’s also playing the smart (who knows how long) game.

Irish “activism” is one of the main reasons I left the country. Great place to visit with the majority of people being super nice, but the endless bullshit on both sides is ludicrous. Two factions of white Christians knocking the shit out of each other for eternity with a political system that works in such…

I also take issue with the entire fanbase of Ulster being lumped in with the Protestant ascendancy. Rugby is one of the few sports we have in Ireland that is untainted with sectarianism and the author just throws that in there. Fine for an international audience I guess, to add to making all of us who climb out of the…

Reading the first few, it never ceases to amaze me that the President has so much time to send emails as well as tweet.

This deserves more stars

I’d not seen that Clay Travis “article” until now...wow.

Sounds to me like you’d be a pretty good father, tbh.

Again, fantastic read.

I was thinking Mount Takevius, whereby one becomes encased in the ash of their own crippling despair, but honestly I’m on board with what you’ve laid out here.

I wish it surprised me that they’ve tried to trot this argument out. Meanwhile in the UK, strict gun control laws are in place and “violent” media remains freely available. There’s also a distinct lack of school shootings. It’s at this point someone usually turns up to make a comment about knife crime or regulating…